Panionios Water Polo Club Explained

Team:Panionios Water Polo
Pixels:160px
Founded:1985 (refounded)
League:A1 Ethniki Water Polo
Arena:Nea Smyrni naratorioum
City:Nea Smyrni, Greece
Coach:Kostas Dimou
Website:panionios.gr

Panionios Water Polo Club is the water polo team of Panionios multi sport club. It has got teams both men and women. The men's team of Panionios is playing in A1 Ethniki (first division) and the women's team is also playing in A1 Ethniki Women (first division).

Men's team

Panionios had had a water polo team by the period it was based in Smyrna, before 1922. It kept up the team when it moved in Athens but some time later it was dissolved.
The water polo team of Panionios was refounded again in 1985, after the building of natatorium in Nea Smirni.
In the ’90s, the water polo men section gradually comes back to top levels and participates in the top division A1 Ethniki for several years (1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 1998-1999). However, poor economics cause the section to relegate again to B division. In season 1994-95, Panionios won the championship of A2 Ethniki (second division) and got promoted to A1 Ethniki (first division).
Since 2005, Panionios stars in the championship, finishing in the first places every year.[1] Soonly it had successes in European competitions. It played two times in the final of the LEN Euro Cup (2009 and 2011) but was defeated. Panionios had played five times in the final of the Greek cup but has been defeated in all matches.

Recent seasons

SeasonDivisionPlaceNotes
2001-021st Promoted to A1
2002-03A1 Ethniki8th
2003-044th
2004-053rd
2005-063rdFinalist Greek Cup
2006-075th
2007-083rdFinalist Greek Cup
2008-092ndFinalist Greek Cup, Finalist Len Euro Cup
2009-102ndFinalist Greek Cup
2010-114thFinalist Greek Cup, Finalist Len Euro Cup
2011-125th
2012-139th
2013-148th
2014-15A1 Ethniki11th Relegated to A2
2015-162nd Promoted to A1
2016-1710th
2017-1811th Relegated to A2
2018-192nd Promoted to A1
2019-208th
2020-217th

Honours

Current roster

2020–21[2]
Players:

Coach:

Women's team

The women team of Panionios was founded in 1988. In season 1993-94 played in first division (A1 Ethniki) but it relegated. It played again in first division from season 2009–10 to 2011–12. In the last season (2012–13) played in A2 Ethniki and finished in second place.

Recent seasons

SeasonDivisionPlaceNotes
2007-08A2 Ethniki 2nd
2008-09A2 Ethniki 1stPromoted to A1
2009-106th
2010-117th
2011-128thRelegated to A2
2012-13A2 Ethniki 2nd

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Panionios Water Polo History. pgss.gr. 4 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140225172806/http://www.pgss.gr/default.asp?pid=119&la=1. 25 February 2014. dead.
  2. Web site: Το ρόστερ του Ευρωπαίου Πανιωνίου | Waterpolonews.gr.